MASS FOR SHUT-INS, foreword by Rae Armantrout

104pp., paperback, Volume 17, Yale Series of Younger Poets, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2023

ISBN: 9780300267990

In these poems Mary-Alice Daniel, who was born in northern Nigeria and raised in England and Tennessee, confronts tricontinental culture shock and her placement within many worlds.

"A ground-breaking earth-shaking collection by a poet possessed of uncanny powers, Every poem, every line, is wildly original. This is a book to which readers will return throughout their lives, and that will also, surely, awe readers yet to be born" Laura Kasischke author of Where Now

“Against humans creating hell on earth, Daniel draws on animistic, Islamic, and syncretic Christian traditions from her native Nigeria to unleash potent incantations, rituals and spells, electric as St. Elmo’s fire. Buckle up.” Rae Armantrout, judge and author of Finalists, Conjure, and Wobble

Mary-Alice Daniel holds a PhD from the University of Southern California. She is the author of A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents.